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...first major clashes in Canton broke out at Sun Yat-sen University, where students are bitterly divided into radical and conservative groups. As with most factions elsewhere in China, their enmities are based less on ideology (both groups use names connecting them with the Cultural Revolution) or loyalty to Chairman Mao Tse-tung (both idolize him) than on matters of self-interest. The conservatives want to get on with school and closer to prestige jobs, while the hotheaded radicals enjoy the disruptions that keep them from being reassigned to farmwork...
...Spike" Hunt lived and wrote in the same style-first person singular. Beginning with World War I, he embarked on a Cook's tour of hot spots and the men who caused them-Lenin founding his Bolshevik regime, Pancho Villa hiding in Mexico's mountains, Sun Yat-sen ensconced in China, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk embattled in Turkey; during World War II, he renewed an intimate working friendship with Douglas MacArthur and later wrote a worshipful biography. He got scoops for all his publishers-Hearst, the New York Sun and, most notably, the Chicago Tribune, which...
...Japan's puppet ruler of Manchuria; of cancer; in Peking. Heir to the 300-year-old Ch'ing dynasty, the "Son of Heaven" was enthroned as Emperor in 1908 at the age of two, and cried throughout the ceremony. Four years later, his overthrow by Sun Yat-sen marked the fall of the world's oldest empire. His life from then on was marked by three decades of royal fantasy, first as a virtual prisoner of the republican government in Peking's Forbidden City, later as "Emperor" of Manchuria and frail front for the Japanese occupation...
...left-wing intellectual he went to China in 1925 to serve as an aide to Mikhail Borodin, the Russian agent whose job was to subvert Sun Yat-sen's Kuomintang for the Communists. That adventure was distilled in an epic novel entitled Man's Fate. When civil war broke out in Spain, Malraux signed on as a Loyalist air officer and wrote another novel based on personal experience, Man's Hope. In World War II he was a hero in the French maquis...
There is a widespread belief in China that a national government is not only unnecessary, but all bad. After the collapse of the Manchu dynasty in 1908, Sun Yat-sen and Generals Wu Pei-fu and Chiang Kai-shek all tried to unify the country, but failed because the city fathers wouldn't cooperate...